The Death Star, a freight depot in the Outer Rim, Jar-Jarchitecture: along with a new metaphysics of science fiction, George Lucas has given us a rich vocabulary to describe his new museum in Los Angeles, as well as its two closest rivals. The fluid-formed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, designed by MAD Architects, has recently conceded a Landspeeder race for completion to Peter Zumthor’s almost infrastructural addition to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, while the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, with its spherical and slightly sinister cinema, opened in 2021. Local Jedi will have a year or so to explore these strange craft before the blinding attention — and likely Tatooine-level temperatures — of the 2028 Summer Olympics bring all three into global regard.
Source: Museums and Megastructures